woman

Noun, Verb (transitive)

wom=an

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun woman has 4 senses

woman(n = noun.person) adult female - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"

has parts: adult female body, woman's body

has particulars: black woman, white woman, yellow woman, amazon, virago, maenad, bachelor girl, bachelorette, baggage, ball-breaker, ball-buster, b-girl, bar girl, bas bleu, bluestocking, bridesmaid, maid of honor, broad, cat, cinderella, coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, tease, vamp, vamper, dame, gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, deb, debutante, divorcee, grass widow, ex, ex-wife, dominatrix, donna, delilah, enchantress, femme fatale, siren, temptress, eyeful, geisha, geisha girl, fille, girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, girl, girl, girlfriend, lady friend, girlfriend, gold digger, gravida, heroine, inamorata, jezebel, jilt, lady, maenad, materfamilias, matriarch, matriarch, matron, mestiza, fancy woman, kept woman, mistress, mother figure, nanny, nurse, nursemaid, nullipara, houri, nymph, nymphet, old woman, bawd, cocotte, cyprian, fancy woman, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl, shiksa, shikse, beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, ravisher, smasher, stunner, sweetheart, sylph, unmarried woman, vestal, wac, wave, widow, widow woman, married woman, wife, wonder woman

is a kind of adult, grownup, female, female person

Antonym: man

Derived forms noun womanhood₃, noun womanhood₂, noun womanhood₁, verb womanise₁, verb womanize₂, adjective womanly₁

woman(n = noun.person) - a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man; "he was faithful to his woman"

is a kind of

female

female person

Antonym: man

Derived forms verb womanise₁, verb womanize₁

woman(n = noun.person) char, charwoman, cleaning lady, cleaning woman - a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write"

is a kind of cleaner

woman(n = noun.group) fair sex, womanhood - women as a class; "it's an insult to American womanhood"; "woman is the glory of creation"; "the fair sex gathered on the veranda"

is a kind of class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum

is a member of womankind

Derived forms noun womanhood₃, noun womanhood₁

CIDE DICTIONARY

woman, n. [OE. woman, womman, wumman, wimman, wifmon, AS. wīfmann, wīmmann; wīf woman, wife + mann a man. See Wife, and Man.].

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person. [1913 Webster]
"Women are soft, mild pitiful, and flexible." [1913 Webster]

"And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman." [1913 Webster]

"I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men; that, wherever found, they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings, inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest." [1913 Webster]
The female part of the human race; womankind. [1913 Webster]
"Man is destined to be a prey to woman." [1913 Webster]
A female attendant or servant. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Woman hater, one who hates women; one who has an aversion to the female sex; a misogynist. Swift.

woman, v. t.

To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. [1913 Webster]
To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. [1913 Webster]
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. Shak. [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

woman, n. (pl. women)
1 an adult human female.
2 the female sex; any or an average woman (how does woman differ from man?).
3 a wife or female sexual partner.
4 (prec. by the) emotions or characteristics traditionally associated with women (brought out the woman in him).
5 a man with characteristics traditionally associated with women.
6 (attrib.) female (woman driver; women friends).
7 (as second element in comb.) a woman of a specified nationality, profession, skill, etc. (Englishwoman; horsewoman).
8 colloq. a female domestic help.
9 archaic or hist. a queen's etc. female attendant ranking below lady (woman of the bedchamber).

Idiom

woman of the streets a prostitute. Women's Institute an organization of women in rural areas to meet regularly and participate in crafts, cultural activities, etc. women's lib colloq. = women's liberation. women's libber colloq. a supporter of women's liberation. women's liberation the liberation of women from inequalities and subservient status in relation to men, and from attitudes causing these. Women's Liberation (or Movement) a movement campaigning for women's liberation. women's rights rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men.

Derivative

womanless adj. womanlike adj.

Etymology

OE wifmon, -man (as WIFE, MAN), a formation peculiar to English, the ancient word being WIFE

DEVIL DICTIONARY

woman

An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a
rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. It is credited by
many of the elder zoologists with a certain vestigial docility
acquired in a former state of seclusion, but naturalists of the
postsusananthony period, having no knowledge of the seclusion,
deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld,
it roareth now. The species is the most widely distributed of all
beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from
Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand. The popular
name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.
The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the
American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be
taught not to talk.
Balthasar Pober

THESAURUS

woman

Eve, Frau, adult, better half, common-law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, distaff side, domina, donna, dowager, doxy, fair sex, female sex, feme, feme covert, femininity, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody, grown man, grownup, helpmate, helpmeet, kept mistress, kept woman, lady, lass, legalis homo, little, major, man, married woman, matron, mature man, milady, mistress, no chicken, old lady, old woman, paramour, playmate, rib, second sex, softer sex, squaw, unofficial wife, vrouw, wahine, weaker sex, weaker vessel, wedded wife, wife, womanhood, womankind, women, womenfolk, womenfolks

ROGET THESAURUS

woman

Adolescence

N adolescence, pubescence, majority, adultism, adultness, manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age, flower of age, prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life, man, woman, adult, no chicken, adolescent, pubescent, of age, of full age, of ripe age, out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult, womanly, matronly, marriageable, nubile, Time with reference to an Effect or Purpose.

Libertine

N libertine, voluptuary, rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man, intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard, chartered libertine, adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, woman, woman of the town, streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece, frail sisterhood, demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan, unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman, woman of easy virtue, wanton, fornicatress, Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette, demimonde, chippy, sapphist, spiritual wife, white slave, concubine, mistress, doxy, chere amie, bona roba, pimp, procurer, pander, pandar, bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.

Woman

N woman, she, her, female, petticoat, feminality, muliebrity, womanhood, womankind, the sex, the fair, fair sex, softer sex, weaker vessel, dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs, lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer, Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani, good woman, good wife, squaw, wife, matronage, matronhood, bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist, nymph, wench, grisette, girl, sissy, betty, cot betty, cotquean, henhussy, mollycoddle, muff, old woman, hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare, she goat, Nanny goat, tabita, ewe, cow, lioness, tigress, vixen, gynecaeum, estrogen, oestrogen, consanguinity &c, paternity, lesbian, dyke, female, she-, feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly, wifely, womanish, effeminate, unmanly, gynecic, gynaecic, Pron, she, her, hers, ', a perfect woman nobly planned, a lovely lady garmented in white, das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan, earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected, es de vidrio la mujer, she moves a goddess and she looks a queen, the beauty of a lovely woman is like music, varium et mutabile semper femina, woman is the lesser man.

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Table of Contents -- christian POS
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christian

RELATED WORDS :

Noun, Adjective, Adverb

Chris=tian

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun christian has 1 sense

christian(n = noun.person) - a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination;

is a member of

christian church

church

is a kind of religious person

has particulars: adventist, second adventist, gentile, gentile, goy, non-jew, protestant, friend, quaker, catholic, old catholic, copt, apostle, apostelic father, apostle, arianist, born-again christian, communicant, melchite, melkite, melchite, melkite, nazarene, shaker, tractarian, timothy, titus

Derived forms noun christendom₁, adjective christianly₁

Adjective christian has 2 senses

christian(a = adj.pert) - relating to or characteristic of Christianity; "Christian rites"

Derived forms noun

christ₁

noun

christianity₂

christian(a = adj.all) - following the teachings or manifesting the qualities or spirit of Jesus Christ;

Derived forms noun

christ₁

noun

christianity₁

Antonym: unchristian

CIDE DICTIONARY

christian, n. [L. christianus, Gr. ; cf. AS. cristen. See Christ.].

One who believes, or professes or is assumed to believe, in Jesus Christ, and the truth as taught by Him; especially, one whose inward and outward life is conformed to the doctrines of Christ. [1913 Webster]
"The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch." [1913 Webster]
One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system. [1913 Webster]
One of a Christian denomination which rejects human creeds as bases of fellowship, and sectarian names. They are congregational in church government, and baptize by immersion. They are also called Disciples of Christ, and Campbellites. [1913 Webster]
" In this sense, often pronounced, but not by the members of the sects, krīs"chan." [1913 Webster]

christian, a.

Pertaining to Christ or his religion; as, Christian people. [1913 Webster]
Pertaining to the church; ecclesiastical; as, a Christian court. Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
Characteristic of Christian people; civilized; kind; kindly; gentle; beneficent. [1913 Webster]

Christian Commission. See under Commission. -- Christian court. Same as Ecclesiastical court. -- Christian Endeavor, Young People's Society of. In various Protestant churches, a society of young people organized in each individual church to do Christian work; also, the whole body of such organizations, which are united in a corporation called the United Society of Christian Endeavor, organized in 1885. The parent society was founded in 1881 at Portland, Maine, by Rev. Francis E. Clark, a Congregational minister. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] -- Christian era, the present era, commencing with the birth of Christ. It is supposed that owing to an error of a monk (Dionysius Exiguus, d. about 556) employed to calculate the era, its commencement was fixed three or four years too late, so that 1890 should be 1893 or 1894. -- Christian name, the name given in baptism, as distinct from the family name, or surname.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

christian, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of Christ's teaching or religion.
2 believing in or following the religion of Jesus Christ.
3 showing the qualities associated with Christ's teaching.
4 colloq. (of a person) kind, fair, decent.
--n.
1 a a person who has received Christian baptism. b an adherent of Christ's teaching.
2 a person exhibiting Christian qualities.

Idiom

Christian era the era reckoned from the traditional date of Christ's birth. Christian name a forename, esp. as given at baptism. Christian Science a Christian sect believing in the power of healing by prayer alone. Christian Scientist an adherent of Christian Science.

Derivative

Christianize v.tr. & intr. (also -ise). Christianization n. Christianly adv.

Etymology

Christianus f. Christus CHRIST

DEVIL DICTIONARY

christian

n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo!
The godly multitudes walked to and fro
Beneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,
With pious mien, appropriately sad,
While all the church bells made a solemn din --
A fire-alarm to those who lived in sin.
Then saw I gazing thoughtfully below,
With tranquil face, upon that holy show
A tall, spare figure in a robe of white,
Whose eyes diffused a melancholy light.
"God keep you, strange," I exclaimed. "You are
No doubt (your habit shows it) from afar;
And yet I entertain the hope that you,
Like these good people, are a Christian too."
He raised his eyes and with a look so stern
It made me with a thousand blushes burn
Replied -- his manner with disdain was spiced:
"What! I a Christian? No, indeed! I'm Christ."
G.J.

THESAURUS

christian

Christianlike, Christianly, Christlike, Christly, God-fearing man, Nazarene, Nazarite, accepted, accepter, adoring, affectionate, approved, authentic, authoritative, becoming, befitting, believer, believing, benign, benignant, blameless, brotherly, burgher, canonical, catechumen, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, civilized, clean, communicant, compassionate, conventional, convert, correct, creditable, cultish, cultist, cultistic, customary, daily communicant, decent, devoted, devotee, devotionalist, devout, disciple, done, dutiful, erect, estimable, ethical, evangelical, exemplary citizen, fair, faithful, fanatic, firm, follower, fraternal, full of integrity, good, good Christian, good citizen, good neighbor, gracious, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, human, humane, immaculate, inviolate, irreproachable, just, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, literal, loving, manly, moral, neophyte, nice, noble, of the faith, orthodox, orthodoxical, pietist, pietistic, pillar of society, pious, prayerful, principled, proper, proselyte, pure, received, receiver, religionist, religious, reputable, respectable, respectable citizen, reverent, reverential, right, right-minded, righteous, saint, scriptural, seemly, softhearted, solemn, sound, spotless, stainless, standard, sterling, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, textual, theist, theistic, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true Christian, true-blue, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, truster, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, venerational, venerative, virtuous, votary, warm, warmhearted, worshipful, worthy, yeomanly, zealot

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christian

Orthodoxy

N orthodoxy, strictness, soundness, religious truth, true faith, truth, soundness of doctrine, Christianity, Christianism, Catholicism, Catholicity, the faith once delivered to the saints, hyperorthodoxy, iconoclasm, The Church, Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church, temple of the Holy Ghost, Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ, Christian, Christian community, true believer, canonist, Christendom, collective body of Christians, canons, thirty nine articles, Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Church Catechism, textuary, orthodox, sound, strick, faithful, catholic, schismless, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic, true, of the true faith, orthodoxy, strictness, soundness, religious truth, true faith, truth, soundness of doctrine, Christianity, Christianism, Catholicism, Catholicity, the faith once delivered to the saints, hyperorthodoxy, iconoclasm, The Church, Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church, temple of the Holy Ghost, Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ, Christian, Christian community, true believer, canonist, Christendom, collective body of Christians, canons, thirty nine articles, Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Church Catechism, textuary, orthodox, sound, strick, faithful, catholic, schismless, Christian, evangelical, scriptural, divine, monotheistic, true, of the true faith.

Piety

N piety, religion, theism, faith, religiousness, holiness, saintship, religionism, sanctimony, reverence, humility, veneration, devotion, prostration, grace, unction, edification, sanctity, sanctitude, consecration, spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness, theopathy, beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life, Body and Blood of Christ, believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist, the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect, Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame, Our Lady, the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light, pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly- minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic, saintly, saint-like, seraphic, sacred, solemn, believing, faithful, Christian, Catholic, elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth, ne vile fano, pure-eyed Faith, thou hovering angel girt with golden wings, piety, religion, theism, faith, religiousness, holiness, saintship, religionism, sanctimony, reverence, humility, veneration, devotion, prostration, grace, unction, edification, sanctity, sanctitude, consecration, spiritual existence, odor of sanctity, beauty of holiness, theopathy, beatification, adoption, regeneration, conversion, justification, sanctification, salvation, inspiration, bread of life, Body and Blood of Christ, believer, convert, theist, Christian, devotee, pietist, the good, the righteous, the just, the believing, the elect, Saint, Madonna, Notre Dame, Our Lady, the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, the children of the light, pious, religious, devout, devoted, reverent, godly, heavenly- minded, humble, pure, holy, spiritual, pietistic, saintly, saint-like, seraphic, sacred, solemn, believing, faithful, Christian, Catholic, elected, adopted, justified, sanctified, regenerated, inspired, consecrated, converted, unearthly, not of the earth, ne vile fano, pure-eyed Faith, thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

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Table of Contents -- temperance POS
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temperance

Noun

tem=per=ance

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun temperance has 3 senses

temperance(n = noun.attribute) moderation - the trait of avoiding excesses;

is a kind of natural virtue, control, restraint

has particulars: dryness, sobriety, abstemiousness

Antonym: intemperance

temperance(n = noun.act) sobriety - abstaining from excess;

is a kind of abstinence

temperance(n = noun.act) - the act of tempering;

Derived forms verb temper₂, verb temper₁

CIDE DICTIONARY

temperance, n. [L. temperantia: cf. F. tempérance. See Temper, v. t.].

Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors. [1913 Webster]
Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness. Shak. [1913 Webster]
"He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance." [1913 Webster]
State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. Shak. [1913 Webster]

Temperance society, an association formed for the purpose of diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

temperance, n.
1 moderation or self-restraint esp. in eating and drinking.
2 a total or partial abstinence from alcoholic drink. b (attrib.) advocating or concerned with abstinence.

Etymology

ME f. AF temperaunce f. L temperantia (as TEMPER)

THESAURUS

temperance

Rechabitism, abnegation, abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, austerity, calm, calmness, cardinal virtues, charity, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, eschewal, evenness, faith, forbearance, forgoing, fortitude, gentleness, golden mean, gravity, happy medium, hope, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, justice, lenity, love, measure, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, mortification, natural virtues, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prohibition, prudence, reasonableness, refrainment, repose, restraint, sacrifice, sedateness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-restraint, serenity, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, stability, staidness, steadiness, supernatural virtues, teetotalism, temperateness, theological virtues, tranquillity, undrunkenness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, uninebriatedness, unintoxicatedness, via media

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temperance

Sobriety

N sobriety, teetotalism, temperance, water-drinker, hydropot, prohibitionist, teetotaler, teetotalist, abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope, sober, sober as a judge.

Temperance

N temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness, forbearance, abnegation, self-denial, self-restraint, self-control, frugality, vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence, abstinence, abstemiousness, Encratism, prohibition, system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro, Pythagorism, Stoicism, vegetarian, Pythagorean, gymnosophist, teetotaler, abstainer, designated driver, Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot, temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing, abstemious, abstinent, within compass, measured, on the wagon, on the water wagon, dry, Pythagorean, vegetarian, teetotal, appetitus rationi obediant, l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la rai, trahit sua quemque voluptas.

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Table of Contents -- union POS
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union

RELATED WORDS :

Noun

un=ion

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun union has 11 senses

union(n = noun.group) brotherhood, labor union, trade union, trades union - an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer; "you have to join the union in order to get a job"

is a kind of organisation, organization

has particulars: industrial union, vertical union, craft union, company union, i.w.w., industrial workers of the world, iww

is a part of labor, labor movement, trade union movement

Derived forms verb unionize₂, verb unionize₁

union(n = noun.location) north - the United States (especially the northern states during the American Civil War); "he has visited every state in the Union"; "Lee hoped to detach Maryland from the Union"; "the North's superior resources turned the scale"

is a kind of america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa

has parts: free state

union(n = noun.act) conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union - the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring"

is a kind of sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice

has particulars: assortative mating, disassortative mating, cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding, inbreeding, service, servicing

union(n = noun.state) unification - the state of being joined or united or linked; "there is strength in union"

is a kind of state

has particulars: coalition, fusion, connectedness, connection, link, colligation, conjugation, conjunction, junction, association, marriage, syncretism

Antonym: separation

union(n = noun.state) marriage, matrimony, spousal relationship, wedlock - the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"

is a kind of marital status

has particulars: bigamy, common-law marriage, endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage, exogamy, intermarriage, marriage of convenience, misalliance, monandry, monogamousness, monogamy, open marriage, cuckoldom, polygamy, sigeh

union(n = noun.process) conglutination - healing process involving the growing together of the edges of a wound or the growing together of broken bones;

is a kind of healing

union(n = noun.group) - a political unit formed from previously independent people or organizations; "the Soviet Union"

is a kind of political entity, political unit

union(n = noun.group) join, sum - a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B"

is a kind of set

has particulars: direct sum

union(n = noun.event) - the occurrence of a uniting of separate parts; "lightning produced an unusual union of the metals"

has particulars: amphimixis, fusion, merger, unification, combine, combining

union(n = noun.artifact) - a device on a national flag emblematic of the union of two or more sovereignties (typically in the upper inner corner);

is a kind of

device

union(n = noun.act) conjugation, jointure, unification, uniting - the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"

is a kind of combination, combining, compounding

has particulars: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination, reunification, reunion, tribalisation, tribalization, umbrella

Antonym: disunion

Derived form verb unite₂

Adjective union has 2 senses

union(s = adj.all) federal - being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman"
union(a = adj.all) - of trade unions; "the union movement"; "union negotiations"; "a union-shop clause in the contract"

Antonym:

nonunion

CIDE DICTIONARY

union, n. [F., from L. unio oneness, union, a single large pearl, a kind of onion, fr. unus one. See One, and cf. Onion, Unit.].

The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination. [1913 Webster]
" Union differs from connection, as it implies that the bodies are in contact, without an interconnected by the in" [1913 Webster]
Agreement and conjunction of mind, spirit, will, affections, or the like; harmony; concord. [1913 Webster]
That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league; as, the weavers have formed a union; trades unions have become very numerous; the United States of America are often called the Union. A. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together. [1913 Webster]
A large, fine pearl. [1913 Webster]
"If they [pearls] be white, great, round, smooth, and weighty . . . our dainties and delicates here at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say “singular,” and by themselves alone." [1913 Webster]

"In the cup an union shall he throw,
Richer than that which four successive kings
In Denmark's crown have worn." [1913 Webster]
A device emblematic of union, used on a national flag or ensign, sometimes, as in the military standard of Great Britain, covering the whole field; sometimes, as in the flag of the United States, and the English naval and marine flag, occupying the upper inner corner, the rest of the flag being called the fly. Also, a flag having such a device; especially, the flag of Great Britain. [1913 Webster]
" The union of the United States ensign is a cluster of white stars, denoting the union of the States, and, properly, equal in number to that of the States, displayed on a blue field; the fly being composed of alternate stripes of red and white. The union of the British ensign is the three crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick in combination, denoting the union of England, Scotland and Ireland, displayed on a blue field in the national banner used on shore, on a red, white, or blue field in naval ensigns, and with a white border or fly in the merchant service." [1913 Webster]
A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, or the like, as the elastic pipe of a tender connecting it with the feed pipe of a locomotive engine; especially, a pipe fitting for connecting pipes, or pipes and fittings, in such a way as to facilitate disconnection. [1913 Webster]
A cask suspended on trunnions, in which fermentation is carried on. [1913 Webster]
"One kingdom, joy, and union without end." [1913 Webster]

"[Man] is to . . . beget
Like of his like, his image multiplied.
In unity defective; which requires
Collateral love, and dearest amity." [1913 Webster]

Hypostatic union (Theol.) See under Hypostatic. -- Latin union. See under Latin. -- Legislative Union (Eng. Hist.), the union of Great Britain and Ireland, which took place Jan. 1, 1801. -- Union, or Act of Union (Eng. Hist.), the act by which Scotland was united to England, or by which the two kingdoms were incorporated into one, in 1707. -- Union by the first intention, or Union by the second intention. (Surg.) See To heal by the first intention, or To heal by the second intention, under Intention. -- Union down (Naut.), a signal of distress at sea made by reversing the flag, or turning its union downward. -- Union jack. (Naut.) See Jack, n., 10. -- Union joint. (Mech.) (a) A joint formed by means of a union. (b) A piece of pipe made in the form of the letter T.

Syn. -- Unity; junction; connection; concord; alliance; coalition; combination; confederacy.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

union, n.
1 a the act or an instance of uniting; the state of being united. b (the Union) hist. the uniting of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603, of the English and Scottish parliaments in 1707, or of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.
2 a a whole resulting from the combination of parts or members. b a political unit formed in this way, esp. the US, the UK, the USSR, or South Africa.
3 = trade union.
4 marriage, matrimony.
5 concord, agreement (lived together in perfect union).
6 (Union) a a general social club and debating society at some universities and colleges. b the buildings or accommodation of such a society.
7 Math. the totality of the members of two or more sets.
8 Brit. hist. a two or more parishes consolidated for the administration of the poor laws. b (in full union workhouse) a workhouse erected by this.
9 Brit. an association of independent (esp. Congregational or Baptist) churches for purposes of cooperation.
10 a part of a flag with a device emblematic of union, normally occupying the upper corner next to the staff.
11 a joint or coupling for pipes etc.
12 a fabric of mixed materials, e.g. cotton with linen or silk.

Idiom

union-bashing Brit. colloq. active opposition to trade unions and their rights. union catalogue a catalogue of the combined holdings of several libraries. union down (of a flag) hoisted with the union below as a signal of distress. Union Jack (or flag) the national ensign of the United Kingdom formed by the union of the crosses of St George, St Andrew, and St Patrick. union jack (in the US) a jack consisting of the union from the national flag. union shop a shop, factory, trade, etc., in which employees must belong to a trade union or join one within an agreed time. union suit US a single undergarment for the body and legs; combinations.

Etymology

ME f. OF union or eccl.L unio unity f. L unus one

THESAURUS

union

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